Has this ever happened to you?

Ok... this has only happened twice to me, but i was just wondering why it happens...
After i delete a lot of files... about 50... my recycling bin still appears full. Then when i right click to empty it again, it says "Are you sure you want to delete 'WINDOWS'?"... then i open the bin and there's nothing in it...
Last time this happened i just restarted the computer and it went away... but i'm downloading a lot of stuff, so i can't right now...
I'm just a little curious...........

That is totally strange. Why don't you just bypass the recycle bin and push SHIFT-DELETE and make it permanent to begin with? THis way you will know it is gone and you won't have that extra step in there.

ooooh...GIGO = garbage in; garbage out. I sure would be careful about using this practice of dumping your files into the recycle bin as a means of testing anything. It could lead to an awful amount of grief when you go to empty the trash. The hand is quicker than the eye and right click: poof! bye bye.
Good practice, and a lot safer, would be to create a TEMP Folder and call it something like MY TEST APPS, or something like that, and place it either on your desktop for quick access, or wherever else you know you can easily find it. But that's just me.

Originally posted by Crybabytek ooooh...GIGO = garbage in; garbage out. I sure would be careful about using this practice of dumping your files into the recycle bin as a means of testing anything. It could lead to an awful amount of grief when you go to empty the trash. The hand is quicker than the eye and right click: poof! bye bye.
Good practice, and a lot safer, would be to create a TEMP Folder and call it something like MY TEST APPS, or something like that, and place it either on your desktop for quick access, or wherever else you know you can easily find it. But that's just me.

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Think maybe you have slightly misunderstood his point. You put them in the recycle bin, run your program, if no errors occur, then those files may be safe to delete. If you make a TEMP folder then test that way there is 1 unnecessary step if you want to delete them. The Recycle Bin, unless you play around with shift + delete doesn't just empty itself on its own.

Originally posted by Crybabytek ooooh...GIGO = garbage in; garbage out. I sure would be careful about using this practice of dumping your files into the recycle bin as a means of testing anything. It could lead to an awful amount of grief when you go to empty the trash. The hand is quicker than the eye and right click: poof! bye bye.
Good practice, and a lot safer, would be to create a TEMP Folder and call it something like MY TEST APPS, or something like that, and place it either on your desktop for quick access, or wherever else you know you can easily find it. But that's just me.

Originally posted by JackieChanIsGOD
Ok... this has only happened twice to me, but i was just wondering why it happens...
After i delete a lot of files... about 50... my recycling bin still appears full. Then when i right click to empty it again, it says "Are you sure you want to delete 'WINDOWS'?"... then i open the bin and there's nothing in it...
Last time this happened i just restarted the computer and it went away... but i'm downloading a lot of stuff, so i can't right now...
I'm just a little curious...........

Anyone wanna tackle this one?

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Once a glitch, twice a trend? This is the first thing that raised the red flag for me.
The second red flag was "delete WINDOWS"

It's been so long that I have almost forgotten what I said in the first instance. :-[ Besides it would seem that your problem has been solved, Jackie.

I don't always check to see what files are in the recycle bin and I have been known - oops - to empty the recycle bin only to discover that - oops - I also deleted stuff that was part of other stuff and hitting delete on the recycle bin too quickly can lead to some interesting problems.

I was simply suggesting that with 50 +- files, in there that just maybe it would be "safer" to create a new folder and name it whatever you want and put it wherever you want - so that nothing gets accidently deleted cause the proverbial moving fingers write and having writ moves on...poof! gone bye bye. I just said "Temp" as an e.g.

I'm here to learn as much as I am to put my two Cdn. cents in the fray. not because I'm an expert.